Sunday, on CBS’ Face the Nation,
the junior senator from the State of Oblivion said—and I’m not making
this up—“I didn’t threaten to shut down the government the last time. I
don’t think we should ever shut down the government. I repeatedly voted…
to fund the federal government.”
What? More than
any other actor in last year’s budget debacle, Ted Cruz is responsible.
Just a cursory glance at the record puts the lie to his blatant
blame-shifting. Beginning with his “not-really-a-filibuster” publicity
stunt, Cruz whipped up the national Tea Party base, emboldened House GOP
radicals, and cowed the Republican leadership. After his Green Eggs and Ham soliloquy, sanity left the building and a shutdown was almost inevitable.
He is back-peddling like crazy because any shot at President or VP went down in flames when his government shutdown gambit failed miserably. He knows he will be a one term Senator (unless someone in Texas gets a recall petition going) if he doesn't point fingers in all directions because he has damaged the already tarnished GOP brand.
Hell, he single-handedly pushed me out of the Tea Party by threatening to default on our debt and destroy the world economy. I thought it was the idea behind the Tea Party was a good idea when it first started. Smaller government and less spending on stupid crap. But it morphed into destroying economic growth and the world economy to force spending cuts. He was the architect of that vision and he should have to live with it and enjoy the rest of his one term in office.
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